City Hall School
City Hall School is a Campus Calgary program. Students visit downtown space to learn about being an active citizen, understand city design, and how to build communities. Students use journaling to notice, wonder, think, and feel about the spaces around them. Students get to meet with the mayor, their councillor, City of Calgary experts and community experts. Students go on many community walks around the downtown core.
Campus Calgary/Open Minds is an innovative school program that brings the classroom to vibrant community settings. Teachers, students, and community experts come together for a week-long curriculum-based experience, designed to meet the needs of each individual learner. The City of Calgary hosts Campus Calgary the municipal building to encourage citizenship.
What's Involved
Pre-Service teacher will
- Engage in conversations with students
- Help control walking as a large group downtown
- Encourage students to participate
- Learn from experts and teachers
- Help with small tasks throughout the day
Requirements
- Pre-service teachers need a current Police Information Check with Vulnerable Sector Screening (issued after May 1 of the current academic year). Students who do not already have a police check should begin this process online with their local Police station as soon as possible as police checks often take 4-6 weeks to process. Please see the Field Experience Police Information Requirement webpage for more information on how to request a PIC-VS.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Develop cross-cultural competencies related to language, culture, and place.
- Examine how programs and educators create communities that are conducive to teaching and learning
- Examine how teaching and learning take place in other contexts
- Gain experience working with youth in a classroom setting
- Gain experience working with youth in a small group setting
- Model positive behaviour for children, youth, teachers, and parents
- Share and receive knowledge regarding teacher education and teaching practice
City Hall School Dates
- Placements begin: January 2024
- Placements end: mid-March 2024
- Training Session: TBA; January 2024
- The program takes place on school days. Times depend on school schedule.
In total, pre-service teachers agree to commit to a minimum of 20 hours for their service-learning experience
Co-Curricular Service-Learning Dates
Fall Semester Timeline
- Fall 2024 Applications Open: August 28, 2024
- Werklund Information Sessions:
- September 9, 10:00 am (in-person: EDT 450)
- September 9, 2:30 pm (Zoom: Register here)
- Fall 2024 Applications Close: September 15, 2024 (program dependent)
- Fall 2024 Placements Start: early October (program dependent)
- Fall 2024 Placements End: mid-December (program dependent)
Winter Semester Timeline
- Winter 2025 Applications Open: November 15, 2024
- Winter 2025 Information Session: November 26, 5:00 pm
(Zoom: Register here) - Winter 2025 Applications Close: December 1, 2024 (program dependent)
- Winter 2025 Placements Start: early January (program dependent)
- Winter 2025 Placements End: mid-March (program dependent)
Experiential Learning Check-In & Reflection Opportunities
All participants in Experiential Learning programs are welcome and encouraged to attend at least two of the check-in & reflection sessions below as part of their program. Reflection is an incredibly important part of experiential learning. It encourages students to consider their experience so far and to adjusted as needed as they go forward through the rest of their program, or into the next step of their career.
Fall Check-In & Reflection Sessions
- Tuesday, October 15, 2024: 9:30 am (Zoom)
- Monday, October 21, 2024: 2:30 pm (in-person)
- Tuesday, October 29, 2024: 5:00 pm (Zoom)
- Monday, November 4, 2024: 9:30 am (Zoom)
- Tuesday, November 19, 2024: 12:00 pm (Zoom)
- Friday, November 29, 2024: 9:30 am (in-person)
- Tuesday, December 10, 2024: 5:00 pm (Zoom)
- Thursday, December 12, 2024: 9:30 am (in-person)
Winter Check-In & Reflection Sessions
- Monday, January 20, 2025: 9:30 am (in-person)
- Monday, January 20, 2025: 2:30 pm (Zoom)
- Thursday, January 30, 2025: 9:00 am (in-person)
- Monday, February 3, 2025: 9:30 am (in-person)
- Tuesday, February 4, 2025: 12:00 pm (Zoom)
- Thursday, February 20, 2025: 1:30 pm (Zoom)
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025: 5:00 pm (Zoom)
Winter 2024 applications are now closed.
Interested in applying for a future semester?
- Log on to Elevate and go to My Werklund Experiences > Courses/Programs
- Find the Service-Learning program and click Apply
- Complete the Service-Learning Application
This experience has opened our eyes up to the opportunities that exist in our downtown and our more immediate communities for learning about the community as a whole
Grade 6 Teacher